Brookline Avenue may soon be getting a redesign courtesy of a developer funded traffic study, the first step in adjusting the road to deal with Fenway’s growing transport burden.

Funding for the study comes from real estate developer IQHQ, which dedicated $1.25 million toward it as part of the community offsets for its new life sciences building at 109 Brookline Avenue.

That’s enough money to fully fund the study and have plenty left over to help implement the changes it recommends.

The plans for 109 Brookline were approved on January 13 by the Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) board. The money set aside for a traffic study was a topic of praise during the meeting. BPDA planner Edward Carmody held up the project’s community benefits package as a model for other developers.

“IQHQ’s package goes beyond what’s typically seen in projects of this size,” he said. “After hearing from the community that transportation is one of the Fenway’s greatest concerns amid increased development, the team added over $1 million in direct funding for multimodal transport improvements. It’s an example of how the Article 80 process can be fruitful for all parties when we engage thoughtfully with it.”

IQHQ isn’t the only firm banking on improvements to Brookline Avenue. Both the Fenway and Kenmore Square have seen explosive growth in the life sciences, and many smaller localized studies have already been completed by developers.

“We need a bird’s-eye view approach to transport challenges in the Fenway. It’s not enough for all these proposed buildings to handle the skirt right around their property, it’s really about how all these pieces work together,” said city councilor Kenzie Bok. “All new projects in this area have been pushed to go above and beyond in traffic studies, and in IQHQ’s case that’s taken the form of this funding.”

Councilor Bok would normally be the one responsible for organizing this kind of traffic study, a process that takes years and is only sometimes successful.

The commercial potential of the area is apparently promising enough that developers aren’t willing to bet on funding a study through standard channels.

“I’ve got extant capital projects that date back to the time of Mike Ross, before even my predecessor was in office,” said councilor Bok. “It’s an unfortunate reality that the city capital budget is so overtaxed that often you’re talking about five to ten years to get this kind of funding.” The money is a step forward for the avenue, but it still has a ways to go before the study bears fruit. The next step is a Request For Proposals from the transportation department, where the city will outline what it wants from the study and firms will compete for the contract.

After that, construction still remains, although IQHQ’s funding will undoubtedly speed up that process as well. Councilor Bok said that at this early stage it’s difficult to estimate when construction could begin.

“Getting an exact timeline is something my office will be pushing for in the next couple of months,” she said. “But the funding should speed up a lot of the steps in this process. A little bit less than half of that money is for the actual study, and then the other half goes toward actually executing on those solutions. We’re also assuming that the study could very well propose work beyond what’s covered by that funding.”